Chat Modifications - MGC Chatbox Evo

This mod is automatically compatible with vB3.6.x, vB3.7.x, vB3.8.x and vB4.x.x

Overview

MGC Chatbox Evo is the most ever installed chatbox for vBulletin !

It offers a new enhanced online experience to your members leading to increased time spent online of more than 25% by providing them with a new, more interactive, way to interact with each other.

• Important number of features
• High level of configurability to fit each users needs
• Channels system
• Many commands
• Bot system
• and more...

... makes MGC Chatbox Evo a must have for your forum !

Detailed features

Following is a non-exhaustive list:

• Simple install
• Ajax based with:
  • Fast and Intelligent chats retrieval through javascript calls to server files (refresh delay configurable per usergroup)
  • Edit/update by double-clicking on a chat
  • Interact on chats through menus and javascript
• Many usergroup permissions to limit features according to usergroups
• Full configuration of the chatbox display:
  Size, position on forum pages, editor layout (either top/bottom input or left/right textarea) and position, number of chats displayed, ...
• Full configuration of the chats display:
  Authorized bbcodes selection, date/time options, avatar display, ...
• Possibility to create channels (unlimited number) with multiple configuration options:
  • Warn user of new message when not active through blinking image and eventually sound notification
  • Possibility to select on which specific page each is displayed
  • Option to display the channel only for selected languages
  • Usergroup/User permissions to access the channel
• Many commands available with usergroup/user permissions to access them:
  • /me: well known IRC command
  • /del: remove shouts (different possibilities of removal)
  • /ignore: ignore shouts from another user
  • /ban: ban user from chatbox
  • /pm: send a private chat to another user
  • /announcement: modify the announcement on top of the chatbox
  • /slap: allow user to slap another user
  • /team: chats sending between specified usergroups
  • /l33t: I33t-ify a message
  • /banchan: ban user from specific channel [PRO only]
• Forum activity notifications system in the chatbox:
  • Different display options:
    • In the chatbox melted with chats
    • In the chatbox in a separate column
    • In the vB4 sidebar or a custom sidebar for vB3
  • Multiple notifications:
    • New thread creation
    • New post creation
    • Post thanked (Abe's)
    • New registrations (not included - separate product)
    • IBProarcade highscore (not included - separate product)
• Bot system with set of predefined trigger chat and corresponding answers and automatic bot chats [PRO only]
• Archive system with statistics as well as download and search capabilities
• Possibility to display the list of users online in the chatbox
• Force anynomous to enter a username before chatting if they can access the chatbox
• Antiflood system
• Private chats feature through PM in tabs
• Optional sound notifications
• Inactive mode feature for server load optimization
• User statistics display in posts and profile
• Chatbox statistics display on forumhome
• Create thread from a chat [PRO only]
• CMS Integration (not included - separate product)
  • vBAdvanced CMPS
  • vBulletin 4 CMS
• Importers from other chatbox systems:
  • cChatbox by Christrato [version 1.5]
  • Cyb - Chatbox by Cybernetec [version 2.3]
  • vBulletin 3.x Shoutbox 1.0 (AJAX) by DionDev [version 1.0]
  • Dream's Chatbox by Dream [version 2.1.1]
  • GSBOS by dinnerbone [version 1.0.5]
  • Inferno vBShout Lite 2.5.0 by Inferno Tech [version 2.5.1 lite]
  • vBShouts 2.0 by Zero Tolerance [version 2.0]
  • MGC Chatbox by MGC [version 1.5]

Install

Refer to the readme for the chatbox install.

Demo

Live demo on MGC Products forum

Languages

1. French
2. English
3. German [Not yet updated]
   
4. Serbian [Not yet updated]

Support

On my website mostly and in this thread

Int?gration

Integration in IBProarcade is described in the readme.
vBAdvanced CMPS and vBulletin 4 CMS integration are available as additional modules.

Compatibility

This hack is compatible with vB3.6.x, vB3.7.x, vB3.8.x and vB4.x.x

Changelog

First part:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=221

Second part:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=5429

Third part:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=8469

How to set the channel images

Thanks to princeedwards for this little how to : click here

PRO version and additional addons available on my website

This mod is automatically compatible with vB3.6.x, vB3.7.x, vB3.8.x and vB4.x.x

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by alessai

in the chatbox the full menu shows up (ignore,pm,delete...etc)

Oh would I have been so drunk for not having done that Will correct it then !

Originally Posted by adnedarn

Well, I had it set to 200px tall. and 25 maximum number of chats. so you can scroll back and read the last few without going into the archive. And it works fine unless some smilies come, then it throws it off. There is always a up/down scroll bar... But when some smilies are there, the chat doesn't line up the last post correctly so you need to scroll down to see it.

If i have it set to 200px tall, and 12 maximum number of chats. there is no scroll bar, and it works fine. That's what I was asking about... shouldn't we be able to have more chats to scroll back and have the chats line up?
Thanks!

I don't understand the problem, smilies are images so they will all the time make the line more or less bigger depending on their size.

The chatbox itself has always the same size whatever you do.

Then the chats are all displayed without up/down scrollbar unless all the chats line become too big to view into the chatbox fixed size.

I can't make the chatbox bigger depending of the number of chats and the fact that there are or there are no smilies in the chats.

You're asking me something really strange and not much realistic.

[vnairp11]

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in /forum.php(540) : eval()'d code on line 56

You encountered that error in the index page ?

I removed this code from line 540 of forum.php and it no longer displays the error, is there a fix for this without removing the code , is this code really required?

i recieved this error in index.php which is my forum.php
my index.php is VBcmps

when i remove this code from forum.php

($hook = vBulletinHook::fetch_hook('forumhome_complete')) ? eval($hook) : false;

the chatbox disappears from the forum.php but shows up in other pages like above post

[VBDev]

What have you exactly removed ?

Coz I suppose you have removed the eval line (hook) from the forum.php and this is not really recommended as none of your forumhome mods would work !

I have never encountered that error, does it disapear if you deactivate the chatbox ?

[adnedarn]

I'm not talking about the size of the chat.. or that there is a scroll bar. I'm talking about how if there are chats, sometimes the newest ( at the bottom) shout disappears, and you have to scroll down to see it. I don't think I'm being clear, so here is a picture... If this is normal and or expected then that's fine. It doesn't do it for all smilies though... You can see the bottom half of the shout is missing, every time it updates it scrolls up just a little like this:

[Queball_Beast]

Thanks

I missed that one :up:

Originally Posted by adnedarn

queball-The time issue has already been adressed... I pointed it out and he showed me it was already on the bug list at the top of the forum...

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by adnedarn

I'm not talking about the size of the chat.. or that there is a scroll bar. I'm talking about how if there are chats, sometimes the newest ( at the bottom) shout disappears, and you have to scroll down to see it. I don't think I'm being clear, so here is a picture... If this is normal and or expected then that's fine. It doesn't do it for all smilies though... You can see the bottom half of the shout is missing, every time it updates it scrolls up just a little like this:

Oh ok, that's a normal thing yes.

As one chat disappear when it refreshes so another one appear and it sometimes doesn't have the same size => it jumps

[adnedarn]

Ok- it's annoying. LOL I'm either going to turn off smilies, or make the number of shouts in the box smaller so it never does that (never will be a scroll bar) thanks!

[adnedarn]

A member just reported if they click to view a person's profile from the chatbox, they are prompted to sign in every time... Using firefox any ideas?

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by adnedarn

A member just reported if they click to view a person's profile from the chatbox, they are prompted to sign in every time... Using firefox any ideas?

Perhaps a cookie problem. I don't know sorry.

[adnedarn]

odd- it works everywhere else on the forum. Including clicking the name in the "Users in the chatbox"